A GAO report recommends expanding the Treasury secretary’s authority to change coinage metals and reaches a surprise conclusion on $1 coins vs. $1 notes.

Customers disappointed with the quality of the Proof 2019-W Lincoln cent the U.S. Mint shipped with orders of the 2019 Proof set can return the products.

The past week’s most-read articles focused on 2019-W cent packaging, recovery of a missing coin, and reports about counterfeit notes and coins.

Answers to collector questions, market trends for the 1895-O Barber dime, and the impact of the first grading guide are all the focus of columns in Coin World.

The inaugural episode of the Coin World Podcast features hosts Jeff Starck and Chris Bulfinch discussing news of the day and why they collect coins.

Benjamin Franklin appears twice on an AU-58 double-struck 1959-D Franklin half dollar that brought $15,600 at Stack’s Bowers’ Feb. 28 sale in Baltimore.

The MS-63 Pittman-Pogue 1800 Draped Bust silver dollar is the AMERICAI reverse variety. It sold for $60,000 Feb. 28 (beating the Pogue auction price).

18th century gold eagles from the Philadelphia Mint are expensive, but a small problem can make an otherwise unobtainable example affordable.

The U.S. Mint provided Coin World wrong information for the March 21 CFA recommendations for the 2021 through 2025 Proof American Eagle platinum coin series.

Explore the world of numismatics with the Coin World Podcast as we discuss coin collecting topics both contemporary and historical.

Coin World interview with Malcolm Varner, co-founder of Alhambra Coin Center.

Philanthropy to support health and medicine is the focus of the updated exhibit “Giving in America” at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

The Commission of Fine Arts has recommended designs for a five-year Proof American Eagle platinum coin program to run from 2021 through 2025.

The U.S. Mint plans the release at noon Eastern Time March 28 of the second of three kids coin sets for 2019 targeting young hobbyists.

Modern counterfeiting risks from China, a counterfeit note from the 1840s newly rediscovered, and a look at Flying Eagle cents, all in the April 8 “Coin World.”

A recap the week’s most-read articles finds reports on the 2019-W Lincoln cents, a counterfeiter and rare grading service holders among the top stories.

A public competition for designs for the three-coin 2020 Basketball Hall of Fame commemorative coin program is open, launched by the U.S. Mint March 19.

Collectors are not necessarily knocking down doors to buy the 2019 American Legion Centennial commemorative coins.

Coin World interview with Pierre Fricke, Founder of Pierre Fricke – Antebellum Coins and Currency.

Is Congress doing the right thing by considering legislation that would authorize a Presidential dollar and First Spouse gold coin for George and Barbara Bush?

The firm F + W media, a periodical and book publisher whose titles include Numismatic News, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

A Proof-only 1895 Morgan dollar that has been off the market for nearly six decades is being offered by GreatCollections in an online sale April 7.

Collectors have had questions about the safety of the packaging used for the 2019-W Lincoln cents. We have some answers.

Mint Director David J. Ryder lived up to a promise he made Dec. 13 — to actually put Apollo 11 coins into space.

The April monthly issue features exclusive features and columns, including a look at collectors who advise others to “buy the holder, not the coin.”

When the U.S. Mint announced that it was making 2019-W Lincoln cents, no one imagined that they would be able to order them at face value, but that happened.

A PCGS MS-65+ 1923-S Peace dollar and an unusually toned MS-63 1928 example showed how expectations can be surpassed when multiple bidders covet the same coin.

Stack’s Bowers Galleries sold the sole finest example of the 1917 Lincoln, DDO cent, graded PCGS MS-67+ red, for $120,000 at its Feb. 28 Baltimore ANA auction.

An MS-64+ 1918/7-D Indian Head 5-cent coin, an overdate variety visible to the naked eye, realized $99,000 in February Stack’s Bowers auction.

The 2019 ANA National Money Show, hosted by the Pennsylvania Association of Numismatists, will be held March 28 to 30 in Pittsburgh.

A total of 261 lucky U.S. Mint customers on March 3 and 4 were able to order 845 individual Proof 2019-W Lincoln cents at face value.

Congress is considering legislation that, if approved, would resurrect the Presidential and First Spouse coin programs for George and Barbara Bush.

Two different 1866 5-cent coins and Arkansas paper money that was redeemable in bacon are among the subjects of columns in the March 25 Coin World.

Our main news article on the West Point Mint’s production of three 2019-W Lincoln cents drew the most attention of readers during the past week.

Kagin’s will host the official auctions of the 2019 American Numismatic Association National Money Show in Pittsburgh.

Stack’s Bowers Galleries offered a handsome MS-61 1797/5 Capped Bust, Heraldic Eagle gold $5 half eagle at its Feb. 28 Baltimore Rarities Night auction.

Getting to the next two America the Beautiful quarter dollar launch events will take more than a simple road-trip for most potential participants.

”The Aristocrat” of Sheldon varieties, this example of the S-15 Liberty Cap cent, graded PCGS Good Details, Damage, was the discovery coin for the variety.

Coin World interview with Seth Chandler, Chief Numismatist at Witter Coin.

Coin World interview with Dana Samuelson, former President of PNG.

Fifty years ago, Eva Adams, director of the Bureau of the Mint, received an unpleasant visit, as reported in the March 12, 1969, issue of “Coin World.”

Coin World’s Marketplace® is excited to be the official online marketplace for Roundtable Trading.

One of the cents in Neiswinter’s collection was this Sheldon 8 1793 Flowing Hair, Wreath, Vine and Bars Edge cent graded PCGS Good Details, Planchet Flaw.

Some experts suspect 1842-O Seated Liberty quarter dollar dies that overstruck an 1838-O Seated Liberty dime from shipwreck treasure were counterfeit.

One of the best 1795 Capped Bust, Small Eagle, 13 Leaves gold $10 eagles could hit $1 million as the top lot at Legend’s March 21 Las Vegas auction.

The March 18 issue of ‘Coin World’ offers more than a half dozen columns exclusive to the print and digital editions. Here’s a preview of three of them.

Readers focused on the West Point Mint’s three special cents for annual sets and changes in the Mint’s offerings of silver coins.

Get your first look at one of the three differently finished 2019-W Lincoln cents to be struck for annual sets this year; this one has a Proof finish.